Proud father Robert Downey, Jr. has gushed about his newborn daughter Avri Roel in a sweet Facebook.com post following her birth on Tuesday (04Nov14).
The Iron Man star took to his social networking page on Wednesday morning (05Nov14) to share his joy with fans, hours after reports about the new addition first surfaced online. Confirming the news, he writes, "After 9 months of intensive development, Team Downey is pleased to announce our 2014 fall/winter project."
Joking about his penchant for snapping photos of the tot, he adds, "Principal photography commenced 11-14 and will continue until she says, 'Dad! You are embarrassing me... I'm 30, this has gotta stop.' "Yep...Avri Roel Downey joined the party @ 3:22 a.m. on November 4th... she's 7lbs even, spans 20 inches, and is accompanied by a variety of Susan's traits that have seemingly overwritten my 'junk DNA.' "I'll post pics here + there when I'm not too busy staring..."
He added the tweet, "Girl Joy!! Avri Roel Downey, 7lbs, 20 in (inches)., 3:22 a.m. 11-4-14... Pretty like mama, and dimples like my uncle Jim!"
The new arrival is the couple's second child - a sister for their son Exton, who was born in 2012.
Downey, Jr. is also dad to 21-year-old Indio from his first marriage to actress Deborah Falconer.
He married Susan in 2005.

Robert Downey, Jr. has become a father for the third time, according to a U.S. report.
The Iron Man star and his producer wife Susan welcomed a daughter in Los Angeles, according to People.com.
The baby girl is the couple's second child together, and Downey, Jr.'s third. Their boy Exton was born in 2012, and the actor also has a 21-year-old son, Indio, from a previous relationship. He married Susan in 2005.

Robert Downey, Jr. is preparing for new fatherhood by purchasing a minivan. The Iron Man action star is the new owner of a Honda Odyssey as his wife Susan prepares to give birth to a baby girl in November (14). The tot will be a little sister for the couple's three-year-old son Exton, while the actor is also dad to 21-year-old Indio, from his previous marriage to Deborah Falconer.

Robert Downey, Jr. has put Matthew Broderick on alert - he wants his permission to meet up with Sarah Jessica Parker, his ex-girlfriend. The couple fell in love on the set of Firstborn in 1984 and dated for seven years in their late teens and early 20s, years before the actress wed Broderick - and now the Iron Man star is keen to hook up with his former flame.
Appearing on shock jock Howard Stern's satellite radio show on Tuesday (07Oct14), Downey, Jr. admitted the romance remains a "big deal" to him, adding he would like to catch up with his ex.
He added, "I’ll make a point of trying to see her while I’m here (in New York). I’d like to... I’ll ask his (Broderick) permission. I just want to check in for a few minutes. I love Matthew Broderick..
"I’d love to have him there. I’ll bring (my wife) Susan."
He then asked a probing Stern, "Would you mind coming just to kind of mediate the whole thing? It would be a natural extension seeing as you’re a part of the conversation."

"We were up in Montreal prepping for Gothika, and we had lunch with the director and Halle Berry. Everybody else ordered Japanese, but Robert told us how oatmeal was the 'superfood'. He brought his own packets of oatmeal to have at lunch. And he had this box of various herbs and stuff. And then he started doing these yoga moves. I mean, he was interesting but weird." Film producer Susan Downey recalls her odd first meeting with the man who was to become her husband, Robert Downey, Jr.

Actor Robert Downey, Jr. is set to become a father for the third time. The Iron Man star, 49, will welcome a daughter with wife Susan Downey in November (14), according to a brief message posted on his Twitter.com page on Wednesday (09Jul14).
He writes, "Yo. Susan. Me. Baby. Girl. November. Scorpio?"
The actor's representative has since confirmed the news.
The couple is also parents to baby boy Exton, who was born in February, 2012.
Downey, Jr. also has a grown-up son named Indio with actress/singer Deborah Falconer. The 20 year old hit headlines last month (Jun14) after he was arrested for cocaine possession in Hollywood.

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Long emancipated from its reputation as the place where has-beens go for one last snag at the limelight, television is attracting big screen folks at the top of their games. A new league of blockbuster movie stars, admired thespians, and Oscar-nominated filmmakers alike are flocking to the comforts of premium cable, all with intriguing projects in tow. Here are a few big name figures taking to the TV game with promising prospects.
DARREN ARONOFSKY
Who's that again? The guy who directed Black Swan, Requiem for a Dream, The Wrestler, The Fountain, and NoahWhat's he working on? MaddAddam, an adaptation of Margaret Atwood's speculative sci-fi novel trilogy (Oryx and Crake, Year Of The Flood, and MaddAddam).For whom? HBO.What's the deal? The story depicts a dystopian future in which genetic engineering has swept the human race. Aronofsky might direct, and is executive producing with his fiancée Brandi-Ann Milbradt and regular collaborator Ari Handel.[Deadline]
ROBERT DOWNEY JR.
Who's that again? Iron Man.What's he working on? An untitled drama about a drug rehab community set in 1980s Venice Beach.For whom? Showtime.What's the deal? Downey obviously has personal ties to the project considering his history with drug abuse; he and his wife Susan are producing, and Orange Is the New Black writer Gary Lennon is handling the script (so we can expect some wit).[Deadline]
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BRYAN CRANSTON
Who's that again? Walter White from Breaking Bad, Hal from Malcolm in the Middle, or Tim Whatley from Seinfeld, and President Lyndon Johnson on ol' Broadway.What's he working on? A narrative adaptation of the Conn and Hal Iggulden book Dangerous Book for Boys.For whom? No word just yet.What's the deal? Although the Igguldens' book takes form as a "how to" manual of sorts, Cranston's television series will draw a narrative out of the variety of rituals established as recommended rites of passage for American youngsters.[Variety]
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Robert Downey, Jr. is hoping to bring his real-life experiences with drugs to the small screen in a new TV drama about a rehab facility in California.
The Iron Man star and his wife Susan Downey are set to produce an as-yet-untitled drama for U.S. network Showtime, which will follow a rehab/therapeutic community in Venice Beach in 1983, according to Deadline.com.
Downey Jr. famously battled the issues with drugs and alcohol 20 years ago, when he was in-and-out of rehab facilities and jail.

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When we last left our heroes, they had conquered all opponents in the 74th Annual Hunger Games, returned home to their newly refurbished living quarters in District 12, and fallen haplessly to the cannibalism of PTSD. And now we're back! Hitching our wagons once again to laconic Katniss Everdeen and her sweet-natured, just-for-the-camera boyfriend Peeta Mellark as they gear up for a second go at the Capitol's killing fields.
But hold your horses — there's a good hour and a half before we step back into the arena. However, the time spent with Katniss and Peeta before the announcement that they'll be competing again for the ceremonial Quarter Quell does not drag. In fact, it's got some of the film franchise's most interesting commentary about celebrity, reality television, and the media so far, well outweighing the merit of The Hunger Games' satire on the subject matter by having Katniss struggle with her responsibilities as Panem's idol. Does she abide by the command of status quo, delighting in the public's applause for her and keeping them complacently saturated with her smiles and curtsies? Or does Katniss hold three fingers high in opposition to the machine into which she has been thrown? It's a quarrel that the real Jennifer Lawrence would handle with a castigation of the media and a joke about sandwiches, or something... but her stakes are, admittedly, much lower. Harvey Weinstein isn't threatening to kill her secret boyfriend.
Through this chapter, Katniss also grapples with a more personal warfare: her devotion to Gale (despite her inability to commit to the idea of love) and her family, her complicated, moralistic affection for Peeta, her remorse over losing Rue, and her agonizing desire to flee the eye of the public and the Capitol. Oftentimes, Katniss' depression and guilty conscience transcends the bounds of sappy. Her soap opera scenes with a soot-covered Gale really push the limits, saved if only by the undeniable grace and charisma of star Lawrence at every step along the way of this film. So it's sappy, but never too sappy.
In fact, Catching Fire is a masterpiece of pushing limits as far as they'll extend before the point of diminishing returns. Director Francis Lawrence maintains an ambiance that lends to emotional investment but never imposes too much realism as to drip into territories of grit. All of Catching Fire lives in a dreamlike state, a stark contrast to Hunger Games' guttural, grimacing quality that robbed it of the life force Suzanne Collins pumped into her first novel.
Once we get to the thunderdome, our engines are effectively revved for the "fun part." Katniss, Peeta, and their array of allies and enemies traverse a nightmare course that seems perfectly suited for a videogame spin-off. At this point, we've spent just enough time with the secondary characters to grow a bit fond of them — deliberately obnoxious Finnick, jarringly provocative Johanna, offbeat geeks Beedee and Wiress — but not quite enough to dissolve the mystery surrounding any of them or their true intentions (which become more and more enigmatic as the film progresses). We only need adhere to Katniss and Peeta once tossed in the pit of doom that is the 75th Hunger Games arena, but finding real characters in the other tributes makes for a far more fun round of extreme manhunt.
But Catching Fire doesn't vie for anything particularly grand. It entertains and engages, having fun with and anchoring weight to its characters and circumstances, but stays within the expected confines of what a Hunger Games movie can be. It's a good one, but without shooting for succinctly interesting or surprising work with Katniss and her relationships or taking a stab at anything but the obvious in terms of sending up the militant tyrannical autocracy, it never even closes in on the possibility of being a great one.
3.5/5
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